2024-04-02
27 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
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It started off with videos of a middle aged woman showing you how to handle some challenging chores in the kitchen and at home.
Then he moved on to her, giving warm greetings and kind words of encouragement that you wish to hear from the mouth of your own parents.
And eventually she'll start spending speaking to you like shes the best mom you could ever imagine.
Hello, Im light Ming at this is roundtable.
Recently, some young people in China have grown dependent on a peculiar type of video streamed over the Internet featuring make believe parents whom they believe are much better than their original mom and dad.
Is there any good explanation to a phenomenon that looks positively ludicrous from the eyes of a real parenthood?
So, Yushun, have you well caught up on what's going on over the Internet?
I mean, young adults really getting pampered by short videos of people pretending to be their parents, giving them advices on how to do chores like slice meat and do some laundry and how to wash down jackets, that kind of thing.
I don't know why these words said by you sound so sarcastic, but I think this is actually a heart swarming, you know, way to do and videos, you know, what I saw was like one couple or a lot of these vloggers or douiners.
They became so popular on Douyin, which is chinese TikTok, in late 2023, by posting some cute videos that they roleplay common parent child interactions, for example, a visit to the supermarket, a long distance video call, or discovering that a child hasn't finished their homework.
But what is making them so popular is that the couple always choose love over traditional disciplinary and parenting methods.
And actually, another way or another aspect that I could think of that they are becoming so popular is that they are teaching some truly practical skills, which may seem like things our parents would teach us in daily life.
But maybe these people, if they think their parents didn't teach them or something like that.
I saw a video one time.
They would use a very, very gentle and inviting tone, and very gently, very peacefully, very patiently explain to you how to cut a cucumber into diamond shapes or into shreds.
I think, first of all, these are very practical skills in our lives and many people would be so willing to watch.
And secondly, their tone makes, you know, many people feel very warm and close to them.
Cutting a cucumber into diamond shapes.